Aerial IR

I have not been very active on here recently, so thought I would post a few pics taken with the infrared converted K20D I bought from karmamechanic. My main reason for getting interested in IR was that it cuts through dust and UV haze, so to give a demonstration of how well it does that, here's two pics of the same scene, one on the K5 and the other on the IR converted camera. These were taken over the Padma River, near Chittagong in Bangladesh.







The IR version shows up detail on the bottom of the river.

Another three from an area called Munshir Hat, in the Padma River estuary, the first a handheld panorama of five shots, Again, the bottom of the river can be seen, giving a 3D effect. The grey lines are I think plant life of some sort.










Myanmar (Burma)







Turkey




Larger versions can be seen on my Flickr page.

Wow these are great - such a fantastic viewpoint you have! The Munshir Hat pics look very seasonal - almost looks like a snow-covered landscape. I love the mountains, especially the last one taken over Turkey - that is awesome! Fantastic stuff.

Regards

Well as always, I'm consumed with envy when I see these

Particularly fascinated by the colour and IR versions of the same scene. I'd love to see some more similar comparisons, though I realise it would be a bit of a pain to have to use two cameras often.

Being used to low level haze that limits the vis to about 30k even on those rare post-frontal very best of days, the infinite vis in the latter ones is just freaky!!

Amazing images!! I hope some day I will be able to purchase a book with a collection of your aerial photography

Bjørn

That's a good idea.

Why not put a Blurb book together? I bet you'd find a few takers here. It would be nice if it wasn't all IR, but a few would be good.

Even if it didn't sell in thousands, it would solve the 2012 Xmas present problem.

As always your aerial shots are stunning. In the first pair I must admit I prefer the colour version but the IR shots of the Padma river estuary are quite sensational. Love the pictures of the Turkish mountains too.
I think its been suggested previously that you have material there for an excellent book. A Blurb would be good but you have material for a really high quality coffee table book.
David

Blurb offers some really nice hardback options, with dustcovers. I was very pleased with the one I had done - I'm pretty fussy, and it was good enough for any coffee table I'd say.

Thanks for the comments, I am actually in the process of putting a Blurb book together at the moment, I have been thinkingg about using it as a plug for seeing if I could get it picked up by a publisher. It will be mostly colour, but with a section of IR images too.